All ought to be common among friends.
ANATOLE FRANCESuffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
More Anatole France Quotes
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.
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